I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players

Chapter 916 - 10: Upheaval in the Celestial Destiny World

On the forum.Ning Zheng opened various posts and found them unprecedentedly popular, with posts being refreshed crazily.

Upon reflection, it made sense. It was just past eight o'clock, a peak time for logging off, so a group of people frantically discussing was quite normal.

Everyone was talking about their first-day open beta experiences.

Ning Zheng didn't look too hard, just skimmed a few posts, and the most popular one turned out to be:

"Shocking! Unbelievable! I saw a legendary native player!"

Ning Zheng thought the Marriage Dress Town Master had been exposed and clicked to see.

It turned out to be some chap pretending to be a native player.

This open-beta player, through some fellow's leaks on the forum, knew there would be a video of the Phoenix Empress singing that day, so they got a sneaky idea and activated the traditional skill—green hat mode.

The specific operation went like this.

As soon as she logged in, she quickly switched to a human character, ran to the clinic for plastic surgery, dressed up as the Phoenix Empress, then went to the Hairpin Lady Tower to buy clothes and props, and really became the Phoenix Empress.

[Phoenix Aunt]

With a unique Phoenix Yi imitation ID, she even went to the square, following the big screen of the genuine Phoenix Empress to sing along and offer photo-op services.

Three Magic Coins each time.

After a day's busking, this Phoenix Empress also performed basketball suspender dance, ancient costume dance... all kinds of dances, directly raking in over a thousand Magic Coins.

Thus, the Sword Casting Manor's newly-minted richest newbie player was born on the first day!

The comments below flooded in:

"Damn, damn, damn, I thought I was already good at making money, but I didn't expect there would be a master! She must have planned out the whole process long ago, her speed is too fast, changing roles–plastic surgery at the clinic–buying clothes at Hairpin Lady Tower–buying a microphone at the blacksmith shop, this speed is like the wind."

"Ah, ah, ah, this is clearly a leisurely farming game, why are you all being such tryhards! I'm a scenery-loving newbie and I'm getting overwhelmed!"

"As expected, I get it! I get it! I, Dao Master, get it! The richest in the manor must be the greeniest in the manor! This girl is simply a genius, she understands the essence of this game's gameplay!"

"I can already imagine a bunch of dancing Phoenix Empresses appearing in the square tomorrow, though maybe not too many, because there aren't many singing and dancing girls."

"You all are making a fuss over nothing. In the afternoon, I saw a high-level imitation of the Night Emperor, holding hands with a high-level imitation of Ye Tian'ai, charging for autographs, and there were actually fools fooled into starting to queue up."

"Are you kidding, and then what?"

"How could the Night Emperor tolerate anyone cuckolding him? There was no 'then', he was directly captured and turned into a lamppost Ember, displayed on the town street, constantly pleading for mercy, truly worthy of the manor's punishment measures. It's reverse chaos, he who greens others will be greened oneself."

"Hahaha, no wonder when I passed by the manor, I saw a lamppost Ember, maintaining the logic it had in life, constantly pleading for mercy, and even singing a rap: 'Night Emperor, Night Emperor, let me go, treat me like a fart and let me go...' It cracked me up."

"This player's Ember hanging there is said to be displayed for a month, singing a rap for a month, he'll probably die of societal disgrace for a month, too tragic, these punishment measures are truly invincible, players can't be killed, but I can make you die of societal disgrace."

"Killed me, the illegal blacksmith turned into Ember hanging on the lamppost, it's too terrifying, I don't dare to commit illegal acts anymore."

Ning Zheng watched speechlessly.

Today was indeed exciting.

A group of initial test players made first-day money-making strategies in advance, each showcasing their divine techniques.

And someone with such audacious operations, the Phoenix Empress earned the top spot by busking?

As expected, new talents emerge in every era.

Ning Zheng then skimmed a few more posts and found they were all showing off their first-day money-making tricks, with certain moves that were truly eye-opening.

Of course, there was also a group of people who couldn't get into the game yet, waiting in line, discussing whether they would be among the hundred-plus random newbies going in tomorrow.

In fact.

They thought this staggered entry was pretty good too.

Since this game isn't a traditional online game with a bunch of partitions, each game area has a Sword Casting Manor, here, there's only one merged large map.

Bringing in fresh blood in batches is actually a good idea.

—They kept praising the planners' brilliance.

"Perhaps this is what the blacksmiths meant by 'there are always great scholars to debate for me'?"

Ning Zheng was already accustomed to their routine, "They're crazily praising the planners' brilliance, could it be that they think I'm secretly pulling strings, deciding their login quota for tomorrow?"

He laughed dumbfoundedly, at first he was confused and utterly lost by these guys' compliments.

Now he's immune.

After reading posts for an hour, until nine o'clock, Ning Zheng finally closed the forum.

Sword Casting Manor was Ning Zheng's power core, he couldn't afford to be careless about it.

But obviously, this open beta was quite successful.

One could imagine that after the snowball effect, they'd exchange more than a billion Qi Fortune Values daily for over a hundred new players each day.

"I wonder if the neighboring Chronicles of Time has found the black-clothed female physician's Spiritual Root in the Chaotic Tomb?"

"If they did, it might increase daily Qi Fortune Values to hundreds of billions, players getting only 1% will still net a few billion, it's like having hundreds of players logging in daily."

"This continuously growing speed of open beta players is definitely enough."

Ning Zheng was thinking and felt like a qualified game planner already.

In the future, he could use game planning to achieve enlightenment, farming to become immortal.

Just then.

The neighboring Celestial Destiny World also directly brought good news: they found a similar Spiritual Root to the female physician's.

Although it seemed like a day had passed, in reality, a hundred years had passed over there, digging three feet deep was certainly enough.

The server's radiation range had expanded, he no longer needed to spend money to open the space vortex, he could directly log in as the Ancient Bronze Emperor and descend there using the server at any time.

With a swoosh.

Ning Zheng stood up, controlled the Ancient Bronze Emperor statue in the Chronicles of Time, looked at Daojiu below the plaza, and said lightly: "How's the situation?"

Daojiu was first stunned, how did the Manor Master's way of descending change?

It became faster, more direct?

But he thought the Manor Master being mysterious was quite normal, and replied: "Lord of the Manor, we found it, it's a very low-level bloodline found in a rural mortal's small physician."

Ning Zheng nodded, "Transfer her from the Soul-Calling Banner."

Having a Spiritual Root foundation is fine, the rest can be added as needed.

Ning Zheng was much more relaxed with this good news.

This meant his profits would soar to around 300% following the major update of the Eighteen Layers of Hell in the near future.

And this 'near future', for Ning Zheng, might just be two or three days later.

Regarding the Hell reform in the Celestial Destiny World, Ning Zheng didn't care, as an Outer God, he only cared if their world's tribute increased!

Daojiu thought for a moment and added: "Emperor, our world has recently seen some peculiar things, it's a kind of localized Ember."

Localized Ember?

Ning Zheng pondered.

Metal + Ember, turning into a regionally characteristic metallic Ember corpse after death?

Oranges grown in the south are oranges, those grown in the north are trifoliate oranges.

Of course, Ning Zheng had heard this saying.

If you must say Embers planted in the neighboring Otherworld don't acclimate well, any friction between the Ember Ancestral Tomb and Metal Ancestral Tomb is understandable.

"Take it out and let me see." Ning Zheng frowned slightly.

Daojiu took out the localized Ember.

It was an extremely thin corpse, cloaked in a cape, seemingly afraid of light, holding a box in its hands.

"We call this creature a Witch Demon, and what he holds is a Life Box, that is his Metal Stone!"

"As you know, people in this world cultivate using Metal Stones, after dying, Metal Stones drop... but the dropped Metal Stones will grow Embers..."

"And this Metal Stone, we call it a Life Box, an urn, a coffin box, this small metal box is actually his true form, breaking the box is the only way to kill him."

"And this Witch Demon walking outside... it's similar to a Dharma Aspect possession, if killed, after a certain period it will resurrect from their small metal coffin—Life Box."

Ning Zheng instantly understood.

In essence, it was also a form of Earth-bound Spirit.

Just that the Earth-bound Spirit next door was different from those of the Nine-State's native one.

The Earth-bound Spirits over there were rooted in Metal Stones.